Problem with sableVM on AIX Platforms

Hi

I am trying to build SableVM 1.1.7 on AIX 5.1 running on an AIX box as follows:

	bash-2.05a# uname -a
	AIX :T 1 5 000C260F4C00
	bash-2.05a#
	bash-2.05a# uname -m
	000C260F4C00
	bash-2.05a#
	bash-2.05a# uname -p
	powerpc
	bash-2.05a# oslevel -r
	5100-01

	Processor Type:  PowerPC_POWER3 or PowerPC_POWER4
	Model Architecture: chrp

There are couple of issues that I had faced while building SableVM Classpath:

*	The default AIX Find does not support -regex option and thus the configure script does not work well. As a resolution, I had taken the GNU findutils for AIX.


*	Secondly, the code does not recognize the Endianess of the machine and throws an error in the native/fdlibm/ieeefp.h file stating "Endianess not declared!!" error. As a resolution I had added the following lines of code in the header file:

		#if (defined(_AIX) && _AIX)
		#define __IEEE_BIG_ENDIAN
		#endif

Though I am able to successfully build the libraries using the following configure command, can anyone confirm that this will not lead to problems as it seems the sableVM code does not support the AIX platforms.

./configure --prefix=/opt/seclient1                 \
             --enable-java                          \
             --with-jikes                           \
             --enable-jni                           \
             --disable-gtk-peer                     \
             --with-find=/usr/linux/bin/find        \
               CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/seclient1/include    \
               LDFLAGS=-L/opt/seclient1/lib  2>&1 | tee ../conf.out

Moreover the sableVM code also does not recognise the IBM architecture and gives problems with the Assembly code.

Regards
Manish Sood

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